Team Rubicon Australia will conduct a core operations induction course at Wodonga RSL on October 19 to teach the basics of being a volunteer, or greyshirt.

The organisation comprises mainly Defence veterans who assist in the aftermath of a disaster, for example helping to clear or clean up sites.

Greyshirt Jed Linley, of Culcairn, said Team Rubicon had responded to cyclone, floods, fire and drought relief.

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"Each of those natural disasters present a different range of tasks, primarily they are chainsaw work, debris removal, just like unskilled, arduous labour work that the home owner or the survivor doesn't really have the energy for because they're still shell shocked by the event," he said.

"One of the biggest things that we've found is just being there to be able to listen to their stories.

"That stuff is as important as the physical labour."

Involving veterans helped support their transition back into civilian life.

Mr Linley, who was in the airforce for 17 years, said his first Team Rubicon deployment, after the Tathra bushfires, gave him new purpose and satisfaction.

"It honestly changed my life," he said.

"It put me back on the right track.

"An elderly lady lost her house and we were able to go sift through all the debris and we found some of her precious belongings that she thought she'd never see again."

As well as deployments, Team Rubicon offered many training opportunities to learn new skills.

"It's all about keeping people engaged and getting them out of the house," Mr Linley said.

Team Rubicon also wanted to attract emergency service veterans and others into the group.

"We don't want it to be an old boys' club and we don't want to be talking about the past, we want to be talking about the future," Mr Linley said.

For more information, go to teamrubiconaus.org, with expressions of interest for the Wodonga session to be made online.